LGBTQ Youth | American Civil Liberties Union

News & Commentary about LGBTQ Youth

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

Queer & transgender youth march from Union Station to U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. on March 31, 2023, calling for autonomy following recent legislation and threats of violence directed towards transgender people.

Jan 11, 2024

The Way Forward for Trans Justice

With the U.S Capitol in the back ground thousands of demonstrators march on Pennsylvania Avenue during the Women's March in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021.

Dec 14, 2023

2023 in Review: The Latest on the Stories That Made Our Year

Activist Raquel Willis speaks before a crowd of thousands at the march for Black trans lives at the Brooklyn Museum in 2020

Nov 30, 2023

How Activist Raquel Willis Found Her Voice and Power

A graphic of a woman holding a megaphone with rulers on her righthand side.

Nov 13, 2023

Test Your Knowledge: What Rights Do Students Have at School?

Nov 1, 2023

Why We鈥檙e Taking the Fight for Trans Youth Health Care to the Supreme Court

Demonstrators perform a die-in symbolizing the amount of people dying from AIDS, Monday, August 17, 1992, in Houston. Hundreds of police and gay rights activists clashed outside the Republican National Convention Monday night as protesters sought to block a street near the Astrodome.

Oct 19, 2023

How ACT UP Changed the Face of AIDS and Activism

POSED BY MODEL A young girl using a mobile phone.

Oct 5, 2023

Internet Censorship Won't Make Kids Safe

A graphic of a child looking at a shelf of library books surrounded by other graphics of thought bubbles and lightbulbs.

Sep 27, 2023

10 Advocates on Why They Won鈥檛 Stand for Classroom Censorship

A group of young demonstrators holding ACLU signs that say Trans People Belong.

Sep 7, 2023

How I Fought for Trans Justice This Summer

Library protest.A person walks past empty shelves at the library in Stony Stratford, near Milton Keynes, after residents have spent the week withdrawing their maximum allowance of books to stop the council's plans to close it as part of budget cuts.

Sep 7, 2023

Why Is Texas Eliminating School Libraries?

吃瓜大本营

News & Commentary about LGBTQ Youth